It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.